After several months without decisive progress (see EUROPE 12732/24), the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union will resume inter-institutional negotiations on the directive on the protection of workers from carcinogens and mutagens at work on the evening of Wednesday 17 November.
The negotiations are expected to focus on three main issues: reprotoxic substances, exposure to hazardous medicinal products (HMPs) and the ‘risk-based approach’ to calculating exposure limit values.
The Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the EU has obtained relaxations of the negotiating mandate from the national delegations to resume discussions with the European Parliament (see EUROPE 12832/22). However, according to several sources, there is little chance of an agreement being reached tonight and a third meeting will certainly be needed to conclude this fourth review.
Finland has circulated an unofficial document to submit several technical options for the inclusion of reprotoxic substances, with some derogations depending on their mode of action by threshold effect or not.
To consult the Finnish document: https://bit.ly/3CqYtcH
For the Slovenian Presidency’s proposed mandate: https://bit.ly/3cecIGV
To view the latest four-column table: https://bit.ly/3DnJX6D (Original version in French by Pascal Hansens)